There’s nothing that a person in a Elizabeth ducky costume doesn’t make a billion times better just by being in the same frame. The press conference for the upcoming highly anticipated live-action Japanese movien adaptation of super popular shonen fantasy swordsman manga Gintama (Silver Soul) took place this week in Tokyo, looking like the best looking group of friends heading out for a summer matsuri festival. The cast was all decked out in yukatas, summer lighter versions of kimonos, and boy does it make the event way more visually appealing. The movie stars Oguri Shun, Suda Masaki, Hashimoto Kanna, Okada Masaki, Nagasawa Masami, Yagira Yuya, Yoshizawa Ryo, Domota Tsuyoshi, and Nanao, in a tale filled with slapstick humor and action set in the mashup world of old school Japanese samurai and aliens. Bring on the weirdness, the first full movie trailer looks totally da bomb! Continue reading
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Aliens and samurais and weird duck creatures FTW! The movie posters and first main preview is out for the highly anticipated Japanese live-action movie adaptation of wildly popular shonen manga Gintama (Silver Soul), a wacky action series that plays loose … Continue reading

Being a manga fan since the dawn of my consciousness means that I will never get too old to not be excited with a live action adaptation, especially when Japan does it and goes all in. Recent years have seen … Continue reading

More character posters are out for the highly anticipated summer Japanese movie live-action adaptation of popular shonen manga Gintama (Silver Soul). The first set of movie posters released last month were of the three main characters – Oguri Shun as … Continue reading

Not every adaptation is equal but it hurts even more for a beloved story to get stuck with a terrible live-action version. Japan did an amazing job with the Rurouni Kenshin live-action movie series and now there’s another similar work … Continue reading